Test branch to see how Scala 2.11.12 performs

This may be useful when Java 8 is no longer supported since
Scala 2.11.12 supports later versions of Java

Author: RussellSpitzer

pom.xml

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
     <commons.math3.version>3.4.1</commons.math3.version>
     <!-- managed up from 3.2.1 for SPARK-11652 -->
     <commons.collections.version>3.2.2</commons.collections.version>
-    <scala.version>2.11.8</scala.version>
+    <scala.version>2.11.12</scala.version>
     <scala.binary.version>2.11</scala.binary.version>
     <codehaus.jackson.version>1.9.13</codehaus.jackson.version>
     <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.6.7</fasterxml.jackson.version>